Thunderbird and Fonts

[Daryl Styrk]

On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 07:36:18AM -0400, Jay Daniels wrote:
> I noticed some fonts in my email in Thunderbird did not show up. 
> Special characters like $ at times would show up as strange characters.
> 
> To test, I goto Edit/Preferences/Display/Fonts button.  I "unchecked" 
> Allow messages to use other fonts.  I Pick "Unicode (UTF-8)" for both 
> Outgoing Mail and Incoming Mail. Then view/Message Body as Plain Text 
> (default).
> 
> This seem to work ok.  Note, I send and view in plain text.  Does this 
> have any unseen ramifications?
> 
>  From my understanding, UTF-8 is a universal character encoding for all 
> languages.  Is this right?  Should we all be using UTF-8?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> 
> jay

UTF-8 here.  I only compose mail in plain text. (mutt + vim) And I have
yet to find a mailing list that prefers to receive HTML mail.  So I'm
always reading plain text too. Google something like 'html email sucks'
and you'll see why.

-- 
Daryl Styrk
Naples FL, USA

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